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Originally Posted by Zezima
This is true, but I would like to add a word of caution. While we are taught to forgive, this doesn’t mean we ignore our emotions. It’s important to work through your resentment and hate. Producing spiritual fruit requires effort and hard work, like cultivating soil in order to grow plants. When people offer simplistic Christian phrases as a way to address suffering, it can feel insincere and inadequate, like offering a fake apple to someone who is starving.
Videos like these unchained ones help do just that, it exposes things and allows for you work through them.
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Greetings Zezima! I think this is the first time we have interacted. I dare say you’re right. Forgiveness, whatever it is, surely doesn't happen by ignoring our emotions if it comes at all.
People talk about hell. To be reliving a physical or emotional trauma is hell. Whatever else forgiveness is, it seems to involve letting go. People say that time heals. Does it? Maybe. Maybe not. How much time have we got?
This body is time-limited. And what about the mind? And the soul?
What if we carry our emotional wounds to the grave? Would we continue to suffer? Can the effort and hard work of working through resentment and hatred continue beyond the grave?
Jesus taught us to pray “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” Is that even possible without the grace of God? Based on my experience, I don’t think so. What do you think?